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Who’s Stuck With The Bill?

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You may need to make your own pension or retirement contributions from your salary if your employer is not contributing towards that. . Many employers offer life insurance plans and other policies that pay out if you’re incapacitated or injured and no longer able to work. For some, this can translate into a significant saving. .

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Celebrating National Customer Service Week by honoring the best

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In the overwhelmingly successful business called Zappos, their philosophy, culture, and obsession with customer service has changed the 1999 Internet shoe business to shoes, clothing and more with annual revenues of over one billion dollars. Although the commercials and advertisements may appear a bit quirky, they make you smile.

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I’m telling my friends about the bad customer service

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Instead company policy intended to streamline and reduce costs wind up costing an organization more money. One size does not fit all in the people pleasing category, but all too often customer service jobs start out as entry-level positions with entry-level salaries.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Besides, as I was told when I was looking at the dismal entry-level salaries being offered when I graduated, and my Dad was wondering aloud why he had paid $$$ for a degree that wouldn’t get me much more than minimum wage (I wanted to go into book publishing, go figure), I shared the quote I got from the university’s job office.

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Taylor's a Feminist – But So Is James | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

That means that if I take a salaried job today, I might be earning $32,550 while the guy next to me earns $35,000. Many of you with families would gladly take on a job at twice your current salary even if it meant some sort of weird workplace problem. Women over 25? They were still stuck with 79 cents to the dollar. Not nearly.

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